Uh-Oh, Now It's Starting

Kamala is an alcoholic? pic.twitter.com/Lwc0suHgZW

— JKash 🍊MAGA Queen (@JKash000) August 15, 2024

Yesterday I noted that Kamala's scripted public appearances were nevertheless nasal and hyperactive, with a lot of over-the-top excitement. I embedded a longer video that included ther brief vignette above, which has bothered me from the first time I saw it.

On August 7, Megyn Kelly said in an interview that

there could be additional “negative reporting” about US Vice President Kamala Harris’ history which the public has yet to see.

“She’s never been vetted, why would anybody vet her – she was put on the ticket by Joe Biden just to check a box,” she told Sky News host Paul Murray.

“Done. It was over. Nobody had any interest in vetting her, and they knew she wasn’t a serious pick.

“I think there’s going to be more coming out about her.”

But over a week later, no more has come out, and Megyn herself has had nothing else to say. Just yesterday, it was being teased that Bob Woodward's new book, scheduled for publication Octobrr 15, would contain some sort of October surprise about Kamala:

Per RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry: OCTOBER SURPRISE: A source close to Bob Woodward says his forthcoming book, “War,” about the Biden-Harris administration’s inner workings will “not be kind to Biden or Kamala” and will drop several bombshells on Oct. 15 when Simon & Schuster releases the tome … developing

This strongly suggests that information is out there, and insiders have long known about it. My own view, which I've expressed here, has been that the baggie of coke found in the cubby outside the White House Situation Room wasn't Hunter's; he had nothing to do with the Sit Room, but the vice president goes there a lot, and she isn't frisked when she goes in. My initial interpretation of the over-the-top intro of Joe at the Maryland rally was that it was fueled by cocaine.

Whatever the specifics are, some version of the big secret seems finally to be coming out. According to Gateway Pundit,

The Trump campaign went public Saturday night with an allegation of rumors about Kamala Harris having a serious drinking problem.

James Blair, political director for the Trump 2024 presidential campaign and the RNC posted on X Twitter, “A lot of rumors out there about Kamala having a serious drinking problem. . . apparently coming into focus as campaign heats up. ⏳Stay Tuned…”

Blair was retweeted by Trump campaign advisor Alex Bruesewitz, indicating campaign approval:

Gateway tracked down a number of earlier tweets from other users pointing to accounts and videos that sppear consistent with the Trump campaign's allegations, such as

How drunk was Kamala Harris when she was speaking at this town hall to Filipino youth? pic.twitter.com/NiTLtO8OfJ

— Owen Gregorian (@OwenGregorian) July 24, 2024

or

Kamala has the fun alcoholic day drinker at the pool type vibe. I’m all for it, it’s fun, you just typically don’t want those people also calling in air strikes. pic.twitter.com/nsBAv773Io

— Tobias Maximus (@tobyzapf) August 5, 2024

or

Apparently Kamala was told not to speak during this event because she was too intoxicated, but she did anyways. https://t.co/yN7vzILiE0 pic.twitter.com/yBEdkAw1BA

— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 17, 2024

Whether it's alcohol, cocaine, something else, or all of the above, it seems like evidence of Kamala's impairment has been around for some time -- all the tweets embedded here were made before the Trump campaign's tweets last night. I've discussed the patterns of alcohol-impaired speech here, which include slurring, hypercorrection, and random pauses. Looking at Thursday's video of her rally with Joe and the videos posted on X above, I think there's a certain amount of slurring, but nothing as clear as Joe's own impaired speech, whatever its cause may be.

Althojgh I've never used cocaine, I've known people -- including at least one CIO -- who have, and I know a little about what it looks like. Drunks aren't hyperactive, alcohol is a depressant. Cokeheads are hyperactive. The cokehead CIO would literally run up eight flights of stairs and burst into a meeting just a bit late, sweating and and wild-eyed. That seems more like Kamala, but let's recall that Hunter had an all-of-the-above attitude. My working theory of Kamala is more along the Hunter line.

I suspect that Washington insiders know a lot more, and they've been covering up just as much as they covered for Joe, even though it was common knowledge that Joe's condition had deteriorated badly. This would inevitably reach Trump, So far, he hasn't directly mentioned the issue, but he's clearly working toward it:

As advisers and allies have called on Trump to tamp down on the personal attacks against Harris and instead focus on criticizing her policies, Trump demonstrated at Saturday’s rally [in Wilkes-Barre] he has no plans to back off. Trump said this week at a press conference at his private Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club he is “entitled to personal attacks.”

“People say don’t use bad language. They say please don’t call people stupid, but they are stupid people. How else do you describe it?” Trump said. “She’s a socialist lunatic. That’s the other thing, please sir, please don’t call her a lunatic, but that’s what she is, she’s a lunatic.”